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Replaced the Adult Education Act and the National Literacy Act. Pub. L. 105–220 (text) 1998 Higher Education Amendments of 1998 Pub. L. 105–244 (text) 1998 Charter School Expansion Act of 1998: Amended the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to make charter schools eligible for federal funding. Pub. L. 105–278 (text) 1998
Although educational reform occurred on a local level at various points throughout history, the modern notion of education reform is tied with the spread of compulsory education. Economic growth and the spread of democracy raised the value of education and increased the importance of ensuring that all children and adults have access to free ...
The Massachusetts Education Reform Act (MERA) of 1993 was an act of legislation passed in Massachusetts that "greatly increased the state's role in [a] funding public education and in [b] guiding the local education process."
The education system as we know it is only about 200 years old. Before that, formal education was mostly reserved for the elite. But as industrialization changed the way we work, it created the ...
“Waste Land: The Department of Education's Profligacy, Mediocrity and Radicalism” is a nearly 300-page deep dive into some of the department’s problems and why true and lasting reform might ...
The Education Act 1944 was an answer to surging social and educational demands created by the war and the widespread demands for social reform. It only covered England and Wales, and was drafted by Conservative Rab Butler. Known as "the Butler Act", it defined the modern split between primary education and secondary education at age 11.
The Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 (IASA) was a major part of the Clinton administration's efforts to reform education. It was signed in the gymnasium of Framingham High School (MA) . It reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
The free school movement, also known as the new schools or alternative schools movement, was an American education reform movement during the 1960s and early 1970s that sought to change the aims of formal schooling through alternative, independent community schools.